July 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1316 – Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
• 1375 – Charles III, Count of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)
• 1507 – Crinitus, Florentine scholar (b. 1475)
• 1539 – Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
• 1666 – Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria-Leuchtenberg (b. 1584)
• 1676 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
• 1715 – Charles Ancillon, French pastor (b. 1659)
• 1719 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English soldier (b. 1641)
• 1773 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
• 1819 – William Cornwallis, English navy admiral (b.1744)
• 1826 – Stamford Raffles, English statesman, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
• 1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
• 1859 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
• 1862 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
• 1863 – Lewis Addison Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
• 1884 – Victor Massé, French composer (b. 1822)
• 1908 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian novelist (b. 1833)
• 1920 – Max Klinger, German artist (b. 1857)
• 1927 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1929 – Henry Lincoln Johnson, American soldier, first American to receive the Croix de guerre (b. 1897)
• 1932 – Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
• 1935 – Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1870)
• 1937 – Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1945 – John Curtin, Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1948 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
• 1948 – Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
• 1957 – Charles Sherwood Noble, American inventor (b. 1873)
• 1965 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1969 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (b. 1930)
• 1969 – Leo McCarey, American director (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (b. 1892)
• 1983 – Harry James, American trumpeter and actor (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Maria Vassiliou, Greek-Cypriot actress (b. 1950)
• 1991 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
• 1996 – Erik Wickberg, Swedish 9th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1904)
• 1997 – Mrs. Elva Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Ernie K-Doe, American singer (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
• 2004 – Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Shirley Goodman, American singer (Shirley & Company) (b. 1936)
• 2005 – James Stockdale, American navy admiral (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoer (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
• 2006 – Amzie Strickland, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Kerwin Mathews, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2007 – George Melly, English singer-songwriter and critic (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Hasan Doğan, Turkish 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
• 2011 – Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Howard Dorgan, American writer and academic (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Rob Goris, Belgian cyclist (b. 1982)
• 2012 – Gerrit Komrij, Dutch writer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, English businessman (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Ruud van Hemert, Dutch director (b. 1938)